Carole Golten

I am a highly qualified Integrative Psychotherapist with over 27 years’ experience. I work with both couples and adults and provide a private, safe space where, together, we can explore your difficulties and enable you to express your feelings and thoughts without fear of being judged or rejected. Even if you have a supportive family and good friends, it can sometimes be hard to talk to them about very personal feelings and thoughts.

I have experience of working with people presenting with various issues including but not limited to: anxiety, panic attacks, depression, relationship difficulties, low self-esteem, weight issues and eating disorders, trauma and PTSD, bereavement and other challenging life situations or changes. I offer several different approaches depending on what is the most appropriate approach according to your individual needs.

For me counselling is a collaborative process which facilitates increased understanding and self-awareness, greater self-acceptance and more fulfilling relationships with others and life in general. I offer psychoeducation in the form of CBT for challenging negative thoughts, interpreting dreams and the REWIND technique for PTSD.

• 2022
• Porn & Sex Addiction Training; Working with Eating Disorders; Bereavement Awareness
• 2021
• Online & Telephone Counselling; Frontline-19 Volunteering; Polyvagal Theory
• 2020
• Transpersonal Ecopsychology inquiry group; Waking up as a member of the Ecosystem; Narcissism & Its Disorders; Addictions: Lasting Change; Eating Disorders & Obesity; 1,000 hrs of volunteering with NHS Check In and Chat; How to do counselling online (a coronavirus primer) OU; Sharing Confidential Client Information
• 2019
• Panic Attacks; Attachment in the early years; Rewind Trauma Therapy
• 2018
• Dreams to Reality II; Life Coaching; Cognitive Psychological First Aid
• 2017
• Homelessness and Health; National Emergency Response Resilience and Support Programme for Stress & Trauma; Empowering Professionals to work with Refugee and Asylum Seeking Women; Suicide Intervention Training
• 2016
• Basic Life Support; Introduction to Attachment Theory
• 2015
• Teaching Clients Mindfulness Skills; Safeguarding Adults
• 2014
• Psychosocial Care After Traumatic Incidents; EAP Foundations Training Course; Attachment Theory & PTSD
• 2012
• Anger with live CBT Demonstration; Live CBT Demonstration with Professor Windy Dryden; Attract More Clients; Imago Couples Workshop
• 2011
• Understanding Anger Disorders; Managing Onsite Critical Incidents
• 2010
• CBT Approach to Managing Menopausal Symptoms; Counselling Assessments
• 2009
• CBT Diploma – Oxford College
• Child Protection training
• 2008
• Core Evaluation System training
• 2007
• Mindfields College:  Effective Anger Management
• 2005
• AWPCCP – Workshop: CBT.  Application in Primary Care Counselling
• 2004
• CCPE Workshop: DSM IV Introduction & DSM IV Anxiety
• 2003
• CCPE Workshop: DSM IV Eating Disorders
• 2002
• CCPE Workshop: DSM IV Mood Disorders, DSM IV Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders & DSM IV Personality Disorders
• AWPCCP – Workshop: Working within a Time Limit
• 2001
• AWPCCP – Workshop: Confidentiality, Note Taking & the Law
• 2000
• Marylebone PCG Mental Health Trust Workshop: Depression
• 1995
• CCPE: Diploma in Psychotherapy (Transpersonal)